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• v  take to task
• s  expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

• Florence's archbishop, Ermenegildo Cardinal Florit, then wrote Mazzi, reproving him for "an insulting attitude to the authority of the church.
• He struck it in a sterner mood when reproving the old order at Green Bay: "My friends, the people of the United States will not restore that ancient order!".
• With a voice and manner gently reproving, Count von Bernstorff called upon the Great Powers to disarm here and now down to the minute Post-War armament of Germany.

• admonish
• reprove
• admonitory
• admonishing
• reproachful

Quotes

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• Huston Street in Tucson Citizen
  You always are reproving yourself,Street said. "Anytime you are sitting back and relaxing that is when you are done, retired or in the Hall of Fame. That is when you can say, 'I have done about as good as I can do.' I am not there yet. I...
• Rick Comley in MSU State News
  When you are at my age now, with my number of years, something goes bad and people right away start to say, 'Well maybe you should start to do something else,'Comley said. "If it means reproving ourselves again, then that's OK. That's what...